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    What were they trying to do? Montag and Mildred spend the day reading through the books‚ but none of what they read made any sense. Mildred begged Guy to destroy the books because it is very dangerous to have them. Guy knows that they can lose their home and be locked away in an insane asylum if they’re caught. Montag won’t give up‚ though. As they read‚ Montag hers the Mechanical Hound that he’s certain has been programmed to hunt him sniffing outside his door. In this section the "Sieve and

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    Education empowers women. To prevent a problem from aggravating shouldn’t we start from the root of it? The beauty of education is that it allows us to work with the root- Girls. Empowering girls with education can show girls that femininity does not entail docility instead a women can be assertive and at the same time exude femininity. With this mindset‚ women would more likely stand up for themselves. Only when women and girls in these poor countries are given their due education would they be

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    The Crucible is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It was initially called "The Chronicles of Sarah Good". It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism‚ when the U.S. government blacklisted accused communists.[1] Miller himself was questioned by the House of Representatives’ Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 and

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    right to take all her elemental strength. As Mary is now a common woman with no witch powers‚ what will next happen to her in "Salem" Season 3 Episode 4? Meanwhile‚ on WGN Writer’s Wrap‚ the show’s executive producer Adam Simon revealed that the revelations seen in Episode 3 "The Reckoning" will have its effect on the entire "Salem" Season 3 Episode 4. "You think at first‚ ’Are they gonna kill her? What are they gonna do?’ But what this is‚ the boy is stripping her of all her powers‚" he

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    Essay on The Crucible The role that grudges and personal rivalries play in The Crucible are a major part of the theatrical production. It is one of the main themes of the play‚ along with: revenge‚ witchcraft‚ deception‚ and religion. Of all the motives and justifications of the characters‚ grudge and personal rivalry is probably the most prevalent. For example‚ Abigail Williams‚ a lowly servant‚ used her own personal grudge against Elizabeth Proctor (her former employer) as an motive for accusing

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    The Devil’s Finger "All is fair in love and war"-proverb. People will do anything for love. There is no act that is too bad or too good when going after the loved one. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller takes place in Salem in 1692/93 where Abigail Williams is the main character who acts among an evil intent because she can’t be with her "love"‚ John Proctor. She is willing to do anything to get Elizabeth out of the way so that she can fulfil her fantasy of being John’s wife. John regrets committing

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    characters. * Decide whether or not his final act was one of excessive pride. * Tell how the title of the play relates to the theme. | The Crucible Essay (Pride) Pride‚ in its definition‚ is a high or inordinate opinion of one’s own dignity‚ importance‚ merit‚ or superiority. The Crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller based on actual events that‚ in 1692‚ led to the Salem Witch Trials. These trials were a group of hearings before local authority to prosecute those accused of witchcraft

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    In The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne and Arthur Miller‚ show how the Puritans are too involved with religion and have too much trust in religion. The amount of trust and involvement Puritans had in religion caused clouded perspective and overreaction. These factors together are what caused many Puritan community to become weak and lose much of their involvement in church. Think about it their core value of church is destructive‚ one power is destructive. Clouded perspective

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    In the book /The Crucible/ the author Arthur Miller portrays one of the main characters judge Danforth as a stern cold man of unfailing faith in his judicial powers. For not only did Miller establish Danforth as the man responsible for determining the fates of those accused‚ but Miller also establishes that it only takes a simple accu-sation for a person to be convicted of witch craft. Danforth is so confident in his power that he states‚ “A pure heart needs no lawyers” (Miller #). But is further

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    the day because‚ they are enjoying time with their friends. But the situation is different from others because they do not have a group of friends to socialize with. After struggling to find people to sit with at lunch‚ Natalie Hampton‚ who is sixteen years old from Sherman Oaks‚ California designed an app called Sit With Us. Elyse Wanshel states that‚"Sit With Us helps students who have a difficulty finding a place to sit that is welcoming in their school lunchroom." The reason behind why Natalie

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